Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France
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2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4655-7 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
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Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.
Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odours. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with toxic behaviour and viewed a woman’s scent as something alluring, but also something to be controlled.
Drawing on a wealth of resources, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores how fiction and related writing on olfaction meet, permeate, and illuminate one another. The book examines medical tracts, letters, manuscripts, posters, print advertisements, magazine articles, perfume manuals, etiquette books, interviews, and encounters with fragrant materials themselves. Cheryl Krueger explores how the olfactory language of a novel or poem conveys the distinctiveness of a text, its unique relationship to language, its style, and its ways of engaging the reader: its signature scent. Shedding light on the French perfume culture that we know today, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France follows the scent trails that ultimately challenge us to read perfume and literature in new ways.
Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odours. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with toxic behaviour and viewed a woman’s scent as something alluring, but also something to be controlled.
Drawing on a wealth of resources, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores how fiction and related writing on olfaction meet, permeate, and illuminate one another. The book examines medical tracts, letters, manuscripts, posters, print advertisements, magazine articles, perfume manuals, etiquette books, interviews, and encounters with fragrant materials themselves. Cheryl Krueger explores how the olfactory language of a novel or poem conveys the distinctiveness of a text, its unique relationship to language, its style, and its ways of engaging the reader: its signature scent. Shedding light on the French perfume culture that we know today, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France follows the scent trails that ultimately challenge us to read perfume and literature in new ways.
Cheryl Krueger is an associate professor in the Department of French at the University of Virginia.
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Translations, Spelling, Editions, Illustrations, and Previously Published Material
Introduction: Something in the Air
1. In a Violet Sillage
2. The Language of Flowers and Silent Things
3. Confused Words?
4. The Osmazome of Literature
5. Perfumed Letters
6. Smelling (of) Iris
7. Decadent Perfuming
Epilogue: Cooked Apples and Exotic Perfume
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.09.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | University of Toronto Romance Series |
Zusatzinfo | 15 colour illustrations, 29 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w figure |
Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 540 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4655-6 / 1487546556 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4655-7 / 9781487546557 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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